Micah loves his daddy

Halloween Festivities

I think pumpkin carving night is so fun!

My kids are all surprisingly squeamish when it comes to cleaning out the pumpkins. Micah did me proud this night and was very sad when I took it away to get the seeds out...

Thursday after school we had a "Bus stop" Halloween party at our neighbor's house down the street. They had gone all out and made this a very fun little party for the kids. Noah chose this moment however, to decide that since he's learnig about the human body in his EXTEND class, he would choose not to eat junk food anymore. I wondered what that would mean for trick or treating or if it would last more than a day anyway. But at our ward Trunk or Treat, he went around to all of the cars with his brothers and Dad,

Then he brought his loot back to me at the van and emptied his entire bag into my bowl to give out to the other kids. Very impressive I have to say.

Ammon spent 20 minutes trying patient to get this marshmallow without any hands. But we had to go and I finally told him to just use his hands.

Friday morning: Ammon's preschool parade. This is a long story that is painful to this mom even in the telling, so I am going to shorten and de-dramatize it a little. The short story is that I am the only mom in this school that forgot all about the Halloween parade. So we were stuck in the line to drop him off looking at all of these costumes and brainstorming how to ever go back home and get his costume to him in time...I finally dropped him off and raced home and back, and got there in the nick of time. I found him with his class all lined up and ready to go, and he was sobbing as all of the teachers tried to find him different costumes in their classrooms that he refused to wear. He just wanted his bat. The day turned out great, but I could have gone down in history as the worst mom of the year for sure. The moment I knew he wasn't traumatized for life is when I picked him up from school and he had the biggest smile..."Mom, that was the funnest day ever....I....GOT....CAANDY!!!!" He obviously doesn't share Noah's views on health views on candy and sugar...

My handsome bat...

After school on Friday we also had a squadron Halloween Party. We went for a little while before trying to rush to the church for the Ward Trunk or Treat....Here is my Micah gorilla with his best buddy, Grace the monkey. Her baby brother was a banana....oh my cuteness.

My incredible Kaden, who would look like he had thick eyeliner and mascara for days to come...okay it was only 2 days but that's just because his Father would not put up with it and did some serious intensive work to get the last of it off...

Truly a beast this boy can be...

Noah sensed my stress as Halloween drew near and I hadn't figured out or had the time to even try to figure out how to help him to be a swamp monster. He got a gold star as he mentioned that week he changed his mind and wanted to be a clown and make people laugh. So much easier...

My boys...

Our trunk or treat was so much fun and so well put together. So it was easy to let it be the end of our Halloween festivities. Then on Sunday a friend had us over for dinner, which got us through have of the trick or treating time, and then we came home to give all the boys some much needed haircuts. Trav had the brilliant idea to just put our Halloween bowl outside the door with a sign that said "Help yourself". So that's what we did.